"Captain, everyone has made arrangements. Can we pull anchor and set sail?"

Long Wu checked all over the ship, then walked into the captain's cabin and asked the boss in a low voice for instructions.

"Qihang, just watch them a little bit. If there are some things you can let them experience, let them help." Gu Kun rested his legs on the console, squinted his eyes in a sleepy manner, and gave casual instructions.

"Pull anchor and set sail!" Long Wu shouted on the intercom, and his voice spread throughout the ship.

"Let's help winch the anchor together." Huang Han took the lead and shouted, leading several boys on the boat to winch the anchor out of curiosity.

Several sailors knew that they were the boss's classmates and were polite, but then they were stopped by Long Wu who came to the deck to take command.

"The boss said it's okay to let them experience it, they won't be tired."

Those classmates and partners were very excited to have the opportunity to participate in sailing for the first time.

Gu Kun also expected this, so he didn't want to disturb them for the time being. He just let those guys play around for a while to loosen their fresh energy.

He sat alone in the captain's cabin, with the chart in front of him, mentally reviewing his plan for this voyage for the last time.

Ever since he bought the "Nightingale", Gu Kun had thought about fishing for a more valuable sunken ship in Southeast Asia, so as to make some money and raise further funds for subsequent plans.

After browsing through all the 15 boats that he had written down in a small notebook after his rebirth (including three that he had already caught and crossed out), he finally set his target on this boat, which is east of the Philippines and Bay, between Okinawa.

Ming Dynasty Spanish Shipwrecks on the South Sea.

Choosing this goal was carefully considered based on multiple factors.

First of all, the first thing Gu Kun thought about at that time was the question of "should I keep it completely secret if I get other ships in the future?"

Salvage itself will not arouse hatred, at most it will only make colleagues a little jealous.

What really arouses hostility or even hostility is "illegal procedures to seize other countries' territorial waters and sunken ships within their exclusive economic zones."

After thinking about this at the beginning, Gu Kun decided that this time he went to sea to salvage the boat, and he should be able to make it public after he got it.

The reason is very simple, because the previous "concealing gray income in a legal name" has its limits. If you make one dollar of white money, it can only cover up five or six dollars of gray money for you.

Just like when Gu Kun first debuted, he used seafood to cover up sonar, and later used marine survey fees to cover up sunken ships around Santiao Lanfang. Basically, the ratio is the same.

Therefore, if Gu Kun's money is an order of magnitude more, it will definitely not make sense, so it would be better to just fish for a boat that can see the light.

Now that he has the "Nightingale", the ability to operate at high speed is no longer a problem.

In case of encountering other passing ships, there will be no difficulty in detecting them in advance, camouflaging them, and moving them using the former Soviet military-grade search radar and sonar from the late 1980s on the "Nightingale".

In addition, the "Nightingale" is a scientific research vessel with completely independent property rights. All the harvests caught with the "Nightingale" will not cause disputes and jealousies over the distribution of the fish.

When taking a boat test, you have to worry about it.

Because when the scientific research vessel of Jiaotong University was leased to Gu Kun, the purpose stated in the contract was "marine topographic survey." If Gu Kun salvaged the vessel by the way, it would be more or less "not in accordance with the contract" and "misappropriating it for other purposes."

, if the lessor wants to increase money because of this, he has to be careful.

It's like you rented a store and agreed to open a restaurant, but you ended up opening an entertainment venue and making more money. The landlord wanted to increase the rent because of this. This kind of thing doesn't happen too often in business cooperation.

All these risks disappeared when Gu Kun got his own boat.

Therefore, of course, we must take advantage of this bonus and get a good ship on the high seas that is morally and legally flawless.

Not only do we want to make a lot of money, but we also need to use this extremely innocent ship to cover more sources of income in the future.

…

Gu Kun spent an hour or two alone in the captain's cabin, thinking through these principles thoroughly, and planning the operations on the map and route planning.

Then he closed his little notebook and locked it in a small safe in the captain's cabin with a password that only he knew.

Then he casually strolled out onto the deck to check on how his classmates were doing.

These people are all used by him as cover and will serve as witnesses in the future.

However, the fake show must be done for real. Now that you are out to play, let's have fun and train them by the way, so as to identify who is suitable for making a life at sea in the future.

Of course, these are all top students from Jiaotong University. The so-called making a living at sea is not to be a sailor, but to engage in marine engineering like Du Guowei.

The ship has been out to sea for two hours and is about 40 nautical miles away from Pudong Pier.

Because the boat is traveling in the southeast direction, it is currently in the sea area between Daixian Island and Shengxian Island in Chuanshan City. This is also a famous fishing ground in East China. Many students picked up the fishing gear on the boat and started to experience sea fishing.

.

Gu Kun saw Zhou Yaoguang holding a pair of binoculars and standing on the deck looking around. He walked over and patted him on the shoulder: "What are you looking at? Why don't you fish with them?"

Zhou Yaoguang put down his telescope and calmly pointed at some small black dot-like islands in the distance: "I'm comparing it with the chart to identify it. That island should be Shengxian Island, and the one to the south is Daixian Island, so with the compass, it's

It can be deduced that our current position should be at the intersection of these two lines..."

"You really treat it as an internship in a professional course. Over in Oceania, a thing called GPS was launched a few months ago. From now on, these common sense skills at sea will be useless." Gu Kun teased casually.

Zhou Yaoguang did not directly refute: "Then fishing is useless. If you want to eat fish, isn't it cost-effective to fish with such a big boat? It's better to catch it all in one net."

Gu Kun nodded secretly: "So, you like to play and find this interesting - they fish for fun, not for food."

It seems that Zhou Yaoguang is a bit industrious and does not like those sports-type leisure activities.

The two were chatting, and there were some booing from the other side of the boat. Gu Kun and Zhou Yaoguang walked over immediately. It turned out that other students were watching Gao Jianxiong fishing.

Huang Han held the fishing rod and sighed with conviction: "Brother Gao has been at sea for ten years, and his skills are amazing. Just now I saw him let out the line and let it slip away for so long, I thought the fish must be decoupled.

."

Gu Kun smiled and asked, "Don't you gain anything?"

Huang Han pointed to the iron bucket next to him. The largest fish in it was only one or two kilograms: "I was just playing around. How can I compare with them? After a few hours, I only caught three fish, and the largest one was less than two pounds of others."

Into big and small.”

"Brother Gao caught this wild big yellow croaker! This one weighs at least seven or eight pounds." Tang Jia, who was on the side, saw Gu Kun coming to check, and quickly started to show off, while saying a few flirtatious and admiring words to Gao Jianxiong.

It makes the other party feel embarrassed.

"Seven pounds of wild large yellow croaker? It will become more and more valuable in the future." Gu Kun took the harvest that Tang Jia handed him and weighed it. "I am happy today. We will use it to cook a large yellow croaker soup at noon."

, put some pickles."

By May this year, the East China Sea will have an official fishing ban for the first year. The total installed power of fishing boats in the East China Sea provinces is not allowed to increase because the fish catch here has entered the saturation fishing stage. In the future, wild yellow croaker and hairtail fish in the East China Sea will

It will slowly rise exponentially.

If left 20 years later, such a large wild yellow croaker would still be worth at least five figures.

From this perspective, Gu Kun, as a reborn person, was actually not reborn at the right time in the beginning - he was a guy who made his first pot of gold by relying on fishing. And wild seafood is something that comes from a later age.

, the scarcer the resource, the more valuable it is.

In 1994/95, it can only be said that seafood has begun to become more expensive, but it cannot be compared with the future.

Gu Kun was lost in thought when Gao Jianxiong beside him couldn't stand the compliments from the female college students. He felt awkward and quickly diverted his fire: "Mr. Gu is also a seafarer. My level is nothing compared to him. You guys want to impress me?"

, let him show his hand."

"Really or not? Ah Kun, show your skills and catch a big one for us to see." Tang Jia said, touching him with his arm and handing him the fishing rod.

Gu Kun weighed it twice: "I like things that are simple and rough. I don't know how to slip fish. And before I find big fish, I have to listen to the fish detector first. I don't like to gamble on luck."

"You can fish whatever you want, as long as you catch big fish."

"Then wait for me for two minutes." Gu Kun said and returned to the captain's room. After a while, the students all noticed that the ship had slightly adjusted its course and slightly reduced its speed.

Long Wu also walked out of the captain's cabin and ordered other sailors to prepare to launch the net.

Tang Jia asked curiously: "Isn't it fishing? How can I let the net go down?"

Gu Kun: "Just to catch a big fish, I guess the extra gas money would not be enough for this extra turn. Of course, after I caught the big fish, I asked them to immediately catch all the fish nearby."

"So confident?"

Under the watchful eyes of his roommates and female classmates, Gu Kun estimated his position, then threw the pole violently, throwing the specially made fishing line dozens of meters away.

He used a fishing gear with multiple hooks and a line, and the reel had a margin of one or two hundred meters. Because large yellow croakers have a certain social habit, if the master masters it well, he can pull up several fish with one rod.

possible.

Of course, in the 21st century, this would be absolutely impossible. It’s not that the habits of the fish have changed, but that almost all fish as big as that in the sea have been caught.

Gu Kun completed all the movements in a relaxed and elegant manner, and then waited for a while.

Not long after, he felt the change in the strength of the fishing line and rod in his hands. He thought it was almost done, and began to quickly twist the line and reel in the rod.

The dozens of meters of fishing line were quickly retrieved, and splashes of water began to appear on the water.

"It's so big. The pole is a little bent. Do you want to walk it? The one down there looks like it's struggling a lot." After Tang Jia saw it, he held his chin with both hands and felt a little nervous.

"What are you going to do for a walk?" Gu Kun had no intention of doing so, because I don't know how.

He directly took a harpoon with a rope at the tail, weighed it in his hand to get used to the weight, then pulled the fishing line to a position less than ten meters away from the side of the boat, aimed and threw it with all his strength.

Then, they used a two-pronged approach, reeling in the fishing rod and harpoon together, and simply and roughly pulled it onto the side of the ship.

The freeboard of a 500-ton fishing boat is only two meters high, making it easy to pull up.

"Here, it's actually so big. Does this...does this weigh 20 pounds?" Tang Jia couldn't help but ask.

"If it's not 20 kilograms, it's at least 15 kilograms. It's rare to see such a big fish once a year, but Brother Gu actually has it right away." Zhou Yaoguang commented with a sigh. He knows the market better because he is a local and can eat well.

More.

Gu Kun smiled calmly: "Are you kidding me? This boat was bought by me after I personally caught a season's worth of seafood and sold it to Guangdong before the Canton Fair last year.

With such a big boat, you can buy a boat just for three months of catching fish, and you don’t have two brushes? My money is all hard-earned!”
Chapter completed!